Hamburg High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Hamburg, IA)

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HOME ECONOMICS Home Economics is a training in homemaking. lt helps each girl to know and understand herself cmd pre- pares her for usefulness in the home and enjoyment in life. Vocational homemaking is not just requiring skills in cooking and serving but includes other phases of work such as the nutritive value of food, planning adequate and balanced meals, table service and food preservation. ln clothing besides learning the fun- damentals of serving the girls also study textiles, selection of garments as to color and design, care of clothing and personal appearance. Other units of work include home furnishing, child care and development, home care of the sick, family relationships, boy and girl relationship, and becoming a mature person. Home projects worked out with the cooperation of the parents are encour- aged because they develop skills learned in the classwork. The course is divided into three years of work. This year there is an enrollment of 43 girls in the department. The American Government class learned about the way our government was operated. Mr. Langfeldt of station K. M. A. gave the class a fine talk. The International Relations students became well-informed about world affairs and kept up in current events by reading the newspapers each day. The American History students kept notebooks to help in their study of the history of our America. They gave many interesting ficticious reports based on events that happened in those days. The World History class made a study of the happenings of mankind from the time that history was recorded. Many interesting reports were made and a great deal of research was done. This course is required work for two semesters for Sophomores. socuu. scrmcn 5 The Social Science Department of g 1 1 i the Hamburg High School includes 1 W' American Government, International Relations, American History, World History and Economics. Miss Nelson Q taught all of these classes with the exception of Economics which was taught by Mr. Mekemson. Current events were shown by New York Times film strips each month to all of Miss Nelson's classes.

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.. sr I 5- l A SHOP CLASS IN PRACTICAL WORK I UN IOR ENGLISH CLASS Mrs. White taught the Freshman, Iunior and Senior English classes. This pictures the Iunior class in some illustrations by use of blackboards. Thorough work in composition and grammar was included in the Fresh- man year. The Sophomore and lunior years were given mostly to the reading and interpretation oi good literature. Emphasis was placed on English and American literature. Mrs. White also taught the speech and journalism classes. The second semester journal- ism class edited the CUB REPORTER. FRESHMAN SHOP CLASS This picture shows Mr. White, in- structor, in shop explaining a point of procedure to Bernard Spittler and Claire Solzman. Shop Training included a thorough practical knowledge of all of the tools found in an average home shop. Many good projects were com- pleted and much work was done in planning of the correct use of materials. Some work was done in the Voca- tional Ag. shop in another building. Some advanced students who did not have shop before enrolled in this course. Norman Brown, senior, assisted Mr. White. Mr. White also taught Biology and coached athletics. THE IUNIOR ENGLISH CLASS IN SESSION .L ,,,, -.ltr

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SCIENCE The Science Department of our high school includes Chemistry, Physics, General Science ond Biology. Mr. Dethlefs taught the first three subjects ond Mr. White tought the Biology. The picture shows the crdvonced Physics class in the lctborcztory. The group includes seniors ond juniors under the supervision of Mr. Dethlefs. I COMMERCIAL The Hamburg High School Commercial Department includes Typing I and II, Shorthand, and Bookkeeping. Mrs. Keith Fender taught all of the subjects in this department. The Typing I classes learned the keyboard in the beginning. They also learned how to type business letters, manuscripts, and how to tabulate listed material. The highest individual score on a five minute test was 57 words a minute. In the Typing II class, each student learned how to cut stencils, they made programs for various clubs and for most of the school events. This class also helped the.March of Dimes by sending circulars to everyone in Hamburg. The Shorthand class used the new Gregg Simplified Method this year. Emphasis was placed on transcribing mailable letters. The Bookkeeping students completed a semester's undertaking by working out a practice set which included the whole bookkeeping cycle. . an-sr X' COMMERCIAL 5 Typing I Closs